Metavante (NYSE:MV), a provider of banking and payments technology, announced the availability of WealthCare Manager: a personal health record (PHR) solution pulling together all of a consumers' health and healthcare financial information - making it meaningful and actionable for consumers in an increasingly consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) world. Fully integrated into its existing suite of healthcare payment and information solutions, the WealthCare Manager completes the circle of inter-connected CDH solutions Metavante has introduced to accelerate the exchange of information and funds between patients, payers, providers and financial institutions.

"With HealthGateway and its supporting solutions, Metavante gave health plans and providers a Web-enabled option for displacing the traditional inefficiencies of passing claims and payments between each other.
HealthGateway also positioned financial institutions to be a part of the solution and deepen their relationship with healthcare providers. BenSoft, Metavante's benefits administration software platform, combined all the plan administration and benefit account payments aspects of CDH onto a single system and helped plan administrators give consumers a single portal to access all account and plan information. Now that Metavante has payers and providers talking, and plan administrators more effectively communicating
with patients/consumers, it's time to give patients a voice through WealthCare Manager," said John Reynolds, division president, Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions.    

WealthCare Manager: Key attributes of the PHR solution from Metavante

* Personalized: User dictates content and controls online access granted to caregivers

* Interoperable: Integrate with key data sources, including claims info received directly from payers, transactional feeds from tax-sheltered CDH benefit accounts, electronic medical record data, medication history, lab results and home monitoring systems

* Problem Oriented: Users can track prescriptions and other diagnostic info related to a particular medical condition, research clinical decision-support tools, and set alerts and reminders for health/disease management

* Anytime, Anywhere: Can be deployed online, mobile phone, USB Flash drive and on desktop computer platforms
 
* Customizable: Brandable to match plan administrators' look and feel

"The integration of a PHR solution with existing Metavante healthcare benefits, claims and payment solutions closes the CDH loop by re-purposing the claims and benefit account information already managed by solutions like HealthGateway and BenSoft," added Reynolds. "WealthCare Manager enables us to take that information and securely put it to use for consumers/patients - reduce the need for manual entry into a PHR, empower them to centrally track CDH account transactions, monitor personal health history, use the PHR to facilitate better communication with physicians, and ultimately take the more active role in their healthcare demanded by CDH."

For more information, visit www.metavante.com